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Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:52:36 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Rogerhttp://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2009/01/09/top-ten-best-books-of-2008/#comment-387
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:32:02 +0000http://blog.betterworld.com/?p=3288#comment-387The most powerful book I ever read was McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian,” and I loved “All the Pretty Horses.” I also liked “No Country for Old Men.”

BUT! I think McCarthy, like some other great writers has gotten too dark, too gloomy about humanity, and too depressing. Why do you read a novel? A big part is for escape, and I like a satisfying ending, if not a happy ending. The ending of “No Country for Old Men” was too dark and gloomy. McCarthy should have let the good guy get away.

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Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:25:40 +0000http://blog.betterworld.com/?p=3288#comment-386I read and enjoyed Twilight, but it is definitely not on the same level as Atonement by Ian McEwan or World Without End by Ken Follett. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera is also thought-provoking and beautiful in it’s own right.
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Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:24:29 +0000http://blog.betterworld.com/?p=3288#comment-385I’ve got to add my recommendation for Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Definitely the most lovely use of language of any book I read last year. When I started reading it, I never thought I would use the word “lovely” to describe it, with its incredibly depressing subject matter, but there you go. That’s the power of an accomplished author, in a nutshell.
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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:00:50 +0000http://blog.betterworld.com/?p=3288#comment-384Marie, thank you so much for coming and checking us out! I tallied the votes and Gods Behaving Badly was certainly well loved! I also thoroughly enjoyed The Road–what a hard-hitter.
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Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:17:20 +0000http://blog.betterworld.com/?p=3288#comment-383Someone just directed me to this and I feel very flattered. Thank you so much. But, readers: The Road is a *much* better book than Gods Behaving Badly. (Though slightly more depressing, I’ll grant you…)
]]>By: Valhttp://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2009/01/09/top-ten-best-books-of-2008/#comment-382
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:44:35 +0000http://blog.betterworld.com/?p=3288#comment-382I read Eat, Pray, Love, and liked it, but would definitely NOT nominate it as the best book of the year. I read The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, by Harry Berstein, which was a fantastic memoir about growing up as a Jew on a religiously segregated street in England. I also loved and was inspired by Mountains Beyond Mountains: The
Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder. Turning to fiiction, I loved A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell, a novel about occupied Italy during WWII. Another terrific book set in WWII, a YA novel, is The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. All of these books are better than Eat, Pray, Love.
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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:27:20 +0000http://blog.betterworld.com/?p=3288#comment-381Twilight is by far the best of those books. yes, i know what your thinking. “She has to be a girl.” the only reason anybody would have to not like that book would be, one: they dont have a love, so they pick on the book because of how perfect Edward is. or two: they are a guy and just say its gay because they want girls to be like, “OMG SHUT UP”, and they will get attention.